October
2003

Richard Alderman participated
in televised debates regarding Proposition 12 on Channels 2 and 8, as well
as Access Houston.

David R.
Dow's
editorial, Innocent Until (sort of)
Proven Guilty, which addressed Governor Mitt Romney's proposal to
reestablish the death penalty in Massachusetts, was published in the Christian Science Monitor on October
7.

Victor Flatt has
accepted an appointment to the Law School Admission Council's Test Development
and Research Committee. He also contributed to the new Law School Admissions
Council's publication, Reaching Out to Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual andTransgenderedLawSchool
Applicants. He
joined the Center for Progressive Regulation, an organization made up of
environmental professors from around the country who are attempting to provide
the information needed for logical, clear, and progressive environmental
regulation. Professor Flatt also agreed to co-author a
new textbook that examines environmental law from an administrative view. The
new book, to be published by West, will be available at the end of 2004.

Leslie
Griffin will
be speaking to the Texas Executive Women on October 14 about whistleblowers. On
October 18, she will be presenting a paper in a panel discussion about Ninth
Circuit Judge John T. Noonan at the inauguration of the St. Thomas Law School in
Minneapolis and then she will be back in Houston to talk on the effects of
corporate reform on legal ethics at the South Asian American Bar Association
dinner meeting.

Craig
Joyce
published the sixth edition of Copyright
Law (Lexis/Nexis)which remainsthe most widely adopted casebook in its
field. Professor Joyce also chaired to conclusion the John M. O'Quinn Law
Library Director Search.

Bryan Lianghas
been appointed to the manuscript review board of the journal, Lawand Literature. Professor Liang
was selected to present his work, Legal Issues forSurgeons in Patient Safety
Work in American College
of Surgeons Patient SafetyManual (Steve Small, ed. Chicago, IL:
American College of Surgeons, forthcoming 2003) at the 89th Clinical
Congress, American College of Surgeons Annual Meeting in Chicago. Professor
Liang is one of only five persons chosen from over
thirty in the volume. He also presented The Law & Audiology: Conflict of Interest and Issues for

the Weary,
and The Provisions of HIPAA: Outlining the Fuzzy Borders at MissouriAcademy of
Audiology, 11th Annual Scope of Practice
Convention, St.
Louis, MO, September
13. Earlier in the month on September 3, Professor Liang spoke in Denver, CO at
the University of Denver School of Law on Health
Law and Institutional Coordination and on September 4, he spoke at the University of
Houston
Health Law Organization on
It Ain't Just Medical Malpractice Anymore: Education,
Opportunities, and Health Law & Policy in the 21st Century.

John Mixon and
Tony Chase co-authored CERCLA: Convey to a
Pauper and AvoidCost Recovery under
Section 107(a)(1)?, 33 Environmental Law 293
(2003).

Douglas
Moll's
article, Shareholder Oppression
and Dividend Policy in the CloseCorporation
(forthcoming in the Washington & Lee
Law Review) was listed on SSRN's Top Ten
download list for "Corporate Law: Corporate & Takeover Law: Recent Hits."
Professor Moll also accepted an invitation to speak at a law and public policy
faculty colloquium at the University of North Carolina
Law School in November. Finally, he spoke to the
LawCenter's
Corporate and Tax Law Society on September 18th about "tips" for
taking law school examinations.

Michael Olivaspublished
a Review Essay on Steven Poskanzer's book, HigherEducation Law: The Faculty (Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2000) in The
Journal of College and University Law, a refereed journal/law review
published at the University of Notre Dame. He also is
on the editorial board of the Journal and is editing its forthcoming issue on
the subject of "Campus Terrorism-Immigration and National Security Law after
9/11." Professor Olivas debated UT law professor LinoGraglia on the Grutter
decision at a UHLC Federalist Society-sponsored debate, and gave an invited
address to the University of
Houston's new
faculty orientation, on the subject of the laws affecting the
classroom.

Jordan
Paustwas a
panelist during the International Conference on the United Nations and
Taiwan,
September 5 in New
York where
he presented a paper entitled U.N. Principles in Theory and Practice: Time for
Taiwanese Self-Determination to Ripen into More Widely Recognized Statehood
Status and Membership in the U.N.? On September 29th, he was a panel
member at the UH Federalist Society sponsored panel on Civil Liberties vs.
National Security: Have We Struck the Right
Balance?

Nancy
Rapoport has
been named the Court's fee expert in In re Mirant, a case involving large, jointly
administered series of energy company bankruptcies being tried in
Fort
Worth. She
is also serving as an expert in an Enron-related
matter.

Irene Rosenberg has
published an essay entitled The Ten Commandments:
TheProhibition
Against Coveting and the Problem of No ActusReus, 39 Criminal LawBulletin 313 (2003).

Ira B. Shepard
spoke
on "Recent Developments in Federal Income Taxation" (with Martin J. McMahon of
the University of Florida Law School) on September 15
at the Southern Federal Tax Institute in
Atlanta. That
date also marked his thirtieth year as Special Advisor to the SFTI Board and
editor of the SFTI program materials (which are now available on CD-ROM). He
also spoke on the same recent developments topic to the Houston Tax Roundtable
on September 10, to the Wednesday Tax Forum in Houston on September 9, to the
Tennessee Federal Tax Institute in Nashville on September 26, and (with
Professor McMahon) to the University of Texas Tax Conference in Austin on
October 1. His outline was used by Victoria Sherlock for a presentation at the
State Bar of Texas Advanced Tax Course in September. He also published an article(co-authored with Professor McMahon) entitled RecentDevelopments in Federal Income Taxation: The Year
2002 in Special Issue 6 Florida
Tax Review 81-184.

Tobi
Tabor and
Kate
Brem
presented "Incorporating Community Service into the Legal Writing Curriculum,"
and Amy
Jaasma and
Kate
Brem
presented "Research Application Exercises" at the Central Region LRW/Lawyering Skills Conference at Washington University School
of Law on September 13.